Word: ananta
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...sculpture can be sensed from the biggest fragment in the show, the head and shoulders of a colossal bronze dating from the 11th century. When complete, the figure must have been 20 ft. long: Vishnu Anantasayin, the god Vishnu in cosmic sleep, reclining on the back of the serpent Ananta, afloat on the primordial ocean. It was found by French archaeologists 60 years ago in the western baray (reservoir) of Angkor--a man-made lake five miles long--and despite its corroded and battered state, its missing eyebrows and moustache (which would have been gold), its empty eyes, it radiates...
Among the cruel ironies that have haunted the career of Indonesia's most acclaimed and influential writer, one stands out as especially grotesque. Pramoedya Ananta Toer's masterwork, four related novels known as the Buru Quartet, deals with the brutally oppressive Dutch rule of his country at the turn of the century; but the regime that burned his manuscripts and library, beat him so that he remains half deaf, jailed him for 14 years without charges or trial and still bans his books and restricts his travel is not Dutch but Indonesian...
Minke, Pramoedya Ananta Toer's young narrator and alter-ego in This Earth of Mankind, cannot get his mind off Annelies Mellema. He remembers the first time...